PSALM 27:10 There are times when we feel there is no one on our side – that even God has turned His back on us. Then loneliness, frustration, and fear takes control of our thoughts. It is difficult, but very important, to distinguish between feelings and reality. It is true that people will let us down, … [Read more…]
PSALM 67 “God be merciful to us and bless us” (67:1a). Do we pray that often for ourselves, our marriages, our children, the church, our towns/cities/nations? We all desperately need God’s mercy and His blessing. God’s mercy is one of the most basic concepts to grasp if we want to experience His blessing, and yet … [Read more…]
GENESIS 1:31 Rogation Days are an old religious custom which is now seldom observed in the Church. The word “Rogation” comes from the Latin “rogare”, which means “to ask,” and the Rogation Days are set apart to bless the fields, and ask for God’s mercy on all of creation, that things may become beautiful as … [Read more…]
PROVERBS 22:6 We are asked to train up our children in the way they should go and not hold on to them and never let them go. The journey of parenting is an ongoing lesson of letting go. We naturally want to protect and direct our children away from pain, danger, or discomfort. When they are … [Read more…]
LUKE 24:32 Most of us experience times when our spirits are discouraged, famished and almost dead. Usually, it happens when we have experienced something that stretches us to our maximum limits, and we find ourselves just trying to hang on. The disciples of Jesus were no different. We read in Luke 24 how they had just … [Read more…]
GENESIS 18:19 God created families and gave parents a unique place in it. Like Abraham, they are to lead their children to know Him. They can love, give of themselves, cook, clean, wash clothes, be the first ones to rise up in the morning or the last ones to lie down at night. They juggle … [Read more…]
ACTS 18:9-10 With all that is happening in the world today, the spirit of fear seems to be working overtime. We have every reason to fear, but the spirit of fear does not come from God. It can be paralysing to anyone who holds on to it. Our spiritual and physical enemies wants us to be … [Read more…]
EPHESIANS 5:1-2 There are many imitators in this world, but few true role models. Children and teenagers, even adults, want to be famous, so they follow the most prominent example they see: movie stars, footballers, musicians, etc. But unless these people are following a greater example themselves, they are doomed to fail and disappoint us. … [Read more…]
PROVERBS 25:5; 1 CORINTHIANS 15:33; 1 KINGS 12:1-16 When confronted by the Israelites to reduce their burdens, King Rehoboam sought advice from two groups. The first group were the elders who had served his father, wise King Solomon. The second group was the young men who grew up with him and were now flocking around … [Read more…]
1 CORINTHIANS 2:9 Where is Heaven? Heaven is a place where a thousand years feels like a day. It is a place where we say no more goodbyes; where people who have fallen are made perfect, wrongs are made right, hearts made whole. A place where everything we love plus a thousand, million things we cannot … [Read more…]
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